Jodi Baumann, who was most recently senior director of global communications at NetApp, will join Hill+Knowlton Strategies Sept. 15 as executive VP.
She'll head the WPP unit's US tech practice and its San Francisco outposts.
Josh Reynolds, CEO of sister firm's Blanc & Otus, was overseeing H+K's technology group on an interim basis following last month's exit of Hadley Wilkins.
Kevin Elliott, senior VP at H+K, took charge of SF duties with Paul Turner's departure to Wells Fargo earlier this year.
Baumann, a 20-year veteran has done marketing and communications in the e-commerce, networking, storage and software sectors.
She's worked for Weber Shandwick, Digital River and Atio Corp.
Amanda Groty is H+K's vice chairman and global technology practice chair.
Laura Anderson, who rose to VP/GM of global communications and events in a nearly 20 year stint at Intel, will take on the Americas technology chair at Burson following the completion of the BCW and H+K merger on July 1.
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